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Recovering noise-covered details from low-light images is challenging, and the results given by previous methods leave room for improvement. Recent diffusion models show realistic and detailed image generation through a sequence of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Dewei Zhou , Zongxin Yang , Yi Yang

Denoising diffusion models (DDM) have gained recent traction in medical image translation given improved training stability over adversarial models. DDMs learn a multi-step denoising transformation to progressively map random Gaussian-noise…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-14 Fuat Arslan , Bilal Kabas , Onat Dalmaz , Muzaffer Ozbey , Tolga Çukur

Low-light photography produces images with low signal-to-noise ratios due to limited photons. In such conditions, common approximations like the Gaussian noise model fall short, and many denoising techniques fail to remove noise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Liying Lu , Raphaël Achddou , Sabine Süsstrunk

Latent diffusion models have become the popular choice for scaling up diffusion models for high resolution image synthesis. Compared to pixel-space models that are trained end-to-end, latent models are perceived to be more efficient and to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Emiel Hoogeboom , Thomas Mensink , Jonathan Heek , Kay Lamerigts , Ruiqi Gao , Tim Salimans

Image super-resolution (SR) has attracted increasing attention due to its wide applications. However, current SR methods generally suffer from over-smoothing and artifacts, and most work only with fixed magnifications. This paper introduces…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Sicheng Gao , Xuhui Liu , Bohan Zeng , Sheng Xu , Yanjing Li , Xiaoyan Luo , Jianzhuang Liu , Xiantong Zhen , Baochang Zhang

Diffusion-based image super-resolution (SR) methods are mainly limited by the low inference speed due to the requirements of hundreds or even thousands of sampling steps. Existing acceleration sampling techniques inevitably sacrifice…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-19 Zongsheng Yue , Jianyi Wang , Chen Change Loy

Diffusion models generate high-quality images but require dozens of forward passes. We introduce Distribution Matching Distillation (DMD), a procedure to transform a diffusion model into a one-step image generator with minimal impact on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Tianwei Yin , Michaël Gharbi , Richard Zhang , Eli Shechtman , Fredo Durand , William T. Freeman , Taesung Park

Diffusion models have achieved impressive results in generating high-quality images. Yet, they often struggle to faithfully align the generated images with the input prompts. This limitation is associated with synchronous denoising, where…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Zijing Hu , Yunze Tong , Fengda Zhang , Junkun Yuan , Jun Xiao , Kun Kuang

Real-world image denoising is an extremely important image processing problem, which aims to recover clean images from noisy images captured in natural environments. In recent years, diffusion models have achieved very promising results in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Cheng Yang , Lijing Liang , Zhixun Su

We present a one-shot text-to-image diffusion model that can generate high-resolution images from natural language descriptions. Our model employs a layered U-Net architecture that simultaneously synthesizes images at multiple resolution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Emaad Khwaja , Abdullah Rashwan , Ting Chen , Oliver Wang , Suraj Kothawade , Yeqing Li

Latent Diffusion models (LDMs) have achieved remarkable results in synthesizing high-resolution images. However, the iterative sampling process is computationally intensive and leads to slow generation. Inspired by Consistency Models (song…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-09 Simian Luo , Yiqin Tan , Longbo Huang , Jian Li , Hang Zhao

Comparing images captured by disparate sensors is a common challenge in remote sensing. This requires image translation -- converting imagery from one sensor domain to another while preserving the original content. Denoising Diffusion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-05 João Gabriel Vinholi , Marco Chini , Anis Amziane , Renato Machado , Danilo Silva , Patrick Matgen

We introduce the Pyramid Diffusion Model (PDM), a novel architecture designed for ultra-high-resolution image synthesis. PDM utilizes a pyramid latent representation, providing a broader design space that enables more flexible, structured,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Jiajie Yang

Latent diffusion models (LDMs) dominate high-quality image generation, yet integrating representation learning with generative modeling remains a challenge. We introduce a novel generative image modeling framework that seamlessly bridges…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Theodoros Kouzelis , Efstathios Karypidis , Ioannis Kakogeorgiou , Spyros Gidaris , Nikos Komodakis

Diffusion-based super-resolution (SR) models have recently garnered significant attention due to their potent restoration capabilities. But conventional diffusion models perform noise sampling from a single distribution, constraining their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Chengcheng Wang , Zhiwei Hao , Yehui Tang , Jianyuan Guo , Yujie Yang , Kai Han , Yunhe Wang

Advances in microscopy imaging enable researchers to visualize structures at the nanoscale level thereby unraveling intricate details of biological organization. However, challenges such as image noise, photobleaching of fluorophores, and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-19 Pamela Osuna-Vargas , Maren H. Wehrheim , Lucas Zinz , Johanna Rahm , Ashwin Balakrishnan , Alexandra Kaminer , Mike Heilemann , Matthias Kaschube

Recently, the transfer application of diffusion models in super-resolu-tion tasks has faced the problem ofdecreased fidelity. Due to the inherent randomsampling characteristics ofdiffusion models, direct application in super-resolu-tion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Chao Yang , Yong Fan , Qichao Zhang , Cheng Lu , Zhijing Yang

Adapting the Diffusion Probabilistic Model (DPM) for direct image super-resolution is wasteful, given that a simple Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) can recover the main low-frequency content. Therefore, we present ResDiff, a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-05 Shuyao Shang , Zhengyang Shan , Guangxing Liu , LunQian Wang , XingHua Wang , Zekai Zhang , Jinglin Zhang

Diffusion models have demonstrated remarkable performance in image and video synthesis. However, scaling them to high-resolution inputs is challenging and requires restructuring the diffusion pipeline into multiple independent components,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Ivan Skorokhodov , Willi Menapace , Aliaksandr Siarohin , Sergey Tulyakov

Diffusion models have become a central tool in deep generative modeling, but standard formulations rely on a single network and a single diffusion schedule to transform a simple prior, typically a standard normal distribution, into the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-12-29 Takuro Kutsuna